As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to surge, the president of the Association of Principals and Vice-principals, Linvern Wright, has recommended that benchmarks be implemented for the shutdown of face-to-face classes because of the...

When placard-bearing residents of Rocky Point mounted an angry protest against a police detention three days after a mystery plane crash-landed on January 23, it was a flash point that elevated a little-known Clarendon power broker to a national...

A Jamaican man accused of killing three people in a vehicular incident in the United States more than 20 years ago, before fleeing to Cuba and then back to Jamaica, has been extradited. Christopher Harvey is to face US courts with three counts of.....

The family of a then six-year-old boy who was chopped multiple times and whose penis was dismembered by a teen in August 2019 is appealing for emotional help and protection from the taunts of residents that are pushing the victim over the edge. The....

Jennifer Forbes Thomas of Rocky Point in Clarendon says her family is still reeling from the trauma of their home being firebombed last Thursday. Relating her experience to The Gleaner, she said she was sleeping when she heard banging at her window....

WESTERN BUREAU: Drug and gun smugglers continue to breach Jamaica’s borders, but the country’s air and marine surveillance infrastructure has reduced the number of contraband runs into the island, Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang has said.....

Had patrons of a Job Lane bar in Spanish Town gathered outside the establishment as was the custom, the carnage from Saturday night’s crash after a bizarre high-speed chase could have been greater. Shortly after 10 p.m., men travelling in a Toyot...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes said he is deeply saddened by the death of former president of the Court of Appeal, Paul Harrison. Harrison, 85, died on Sunday morning. “Justice Harrison served our courts for over 45 years. His appellate career was......

Sunday’s memorial service for 1970s reggae songstress Yvonne Sterling signalled the end of an era spanning 50 years of friendship with fellow Big Yard, Orange Street, resident and schoolmate Tony Parkins. Parkins, who attended Kingston City Schoo...

It will take another three weeks for Jamaicans to know whether the deadlier, more contagious UK variant of COVID-19 is spreading among its population, but until then, Cabinet may have to take more drastic measures to curtail the spread of the virus....

Dangerous thorns spring aplenty in the gritty inner-city community of Rose Gardens, nested inside the crime-infested community of Southside in the capital city, sitting within the larger infestations in Kingston known as Spoilers. Robert Calvert...

Residents of March Pen in Spanish Town, St Catherine, are hopping mad after a two-year-old boy was killed and woman left hospitalised in a hit-and-run accident yesterday. Reports are that, about 11 a.m., the infant, Tayshawn McDonald, was at...

High-school principals are insisting on a revision of the face-to-face policy as the health authorities deal with a record-breaking surge in coronavirus cases in the island. Linvern Wright, president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of...

The Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society has come out swinging against a recommendation by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) for minors to have access to abortions without parental consent. This was one of three recommendations...

Since a 2017 fire turned their lives upside down, Moya Beckford has been struggling, driven by the fear of failing her two children, eight-year-old Nicholas Edwards and 16-year-old Ashhail Samuels. On the fateful night, Beckford said that she...

Declaring that they would not surrender their sacred temple to criminals, worshippers at the Agape Christian Fellowship in Falmouth, Trelawny, were back at church on Thursday, days after witnessing a shocking murder during one of their services. On....

The leading private-sector groups in Jamaica are getting ready to lead a strong lobby of the Government to craft and promulgate legislation similar to the United Kingdom’s 2010 Bribery Act as part of efforts to reduce or eliminate corruption in th...

Pagee Beach, St Mary: Fishermen at Pagee Beach in St Mary, who once enjoyed large catches, are now struggling to earn a living as overfishing has drastically reduced earnings from the once-viable vocation. In addition to a struggle to find any fish....

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has approved a new electricity rate class which will begin to affect residential and small commercial customers as early as this month. The Jamaica Public Service Company has been given six months to roll......

Clarendon resident Lascelles Simmonds has his hands full these days with five adopted ‘babies’ – all centenarians. The president of the Spaldings Development Area Committee (DAC), who sits on the Clarendon Parish Development Committee, says h...